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Does God Have a Specific Marriage Partner for you?

Hi Dr. Craig, I'd like to probe you more on your views of divine providence and marriage in particular. I believe you've said that God has a specific marriage partner intended for each person (unless perhaps that person is somehow called to celibacy). This s...

divine providence, free will, marriage, middle knowledge, molinism

Did God Overlook China?

Dear Dr. Craig, I'm originally from China and have lived in the U.S. for 17 years. Through a Christian friend, I've been introduced to your books and debates online. I've been going to church for two years now, getting very close to becoming a Chr...

christian particularism, middle knowledge, molinism, salvation

Does God Cause People to Do Evil?

Dr. Craig, thank you for all that you do to help us understand the God of the Bible in face of the difficult issues we all face. As a follower of Christ, I am troubled by some passages in Scripture which seem to indicate that God not only allows evil (the trea...

divine foreknowledge, divine providence, foreknowledge, middle knowledge, molinism, problem of evil

Guidance and God’s Plan

Dr. Craig, First and foremost thank you for the work you've done. I'm young and I've barely scratched the surface of Christian apologetics and the enormous body of literature thereof, but your contributions to the field have made a huge difference...

divine sovereignty, free will, meaning of life, middle knowledge, purpose of life

Limited Atonement

Dear Dr. Craig, Thank you so much for your ministry and the work you do for the kingdom; I really appreciate the work that you've done. I am also glad that you have chosen to take on the atonement, as I have had just this past school year some puzzlement ...

atonement, calvinism, limited atonement, middle knowledge, theories of atonement

Doctrine of God (Part 16): Practical Application of Divine Omniscience / God's Omnipotence

christian living, middle knowledge, predestination

Doctrine of God (Part 15): God's Middle Knowledge

determinism, middle knowledge, molinism

How Does God Foreknow Free Choices?

Greetings, I have been listening to and reading a lot of your material over the last year, and have been learning a lot - not least from the Defenders podcast. I've been searching in your material for the answer to a specific question, but haven't fou...

determinism, divine foreknowledge, divine providence, divine sovereignty, free will, middle knowledge

Must We Pray for a Miracle?

Dear Mr William Craig, I hope you will answer my question because it has been the main objection preventing me from converting to Christianity even though I find most of it coherent and eminently attractive. My question is about divine providence. In the Gos...

divine foreknowledge, divine providence, foreknowledge, middle knowledge, miracles, molinism

Is Molinism as Depressing as Calvinism?

I had a question regarding God's Foreknowledge which is a topic that consistently eats away at my heart. I was looking at an article Dr. Craig wrote on middle knowledge and I was wondering: How does middle knowledge take us away from the idea of determin...

calvinism, causal determinism, doubt, middle knowledge, molinism, salvation